FFR TCG: USA Takeover Round 2

[TheSaxRunner05]

FFR TCG: USA Takeover

Results

It came down to state population to determine the winner, and Trumpet63 came out on top! Guest's strategy of picking lower states on the spreadsheet to not overlap with anyone worked well enough for second place, and storn42 wins Third place with 4 States Won.

Trumpet63 (5)	Population	Total
Alaska	710231	      34,311,244
Arizona	6,392,017	
Florida	19,552,860	
Idaho 	1,612,136	
Missouri   6,044,000	
		
Guest15937 (5)		
Michigan  9,895,622    23,336,129
South Dakota 844,877	
Tennessee  6,496,000	
Vermont	626,630	
Wisconsin 5,473,000

Storn:

California
Maryland
Massachusetts
Utah

Most Contested State:
Rhode Island with 4 players playing cards on it!

Closest State Victory:
Trumpet's Victory in Idaho

His Difficulty 4 card beat out a difficulty 3 and another players difficulty 1 to not only win the state, but be a deciding factor for his victory.

Most Discarded Cards:
FoxFire667 - 4 Over Two States
benny58624 - 3 Over Three States

Well Thanks to everyone who participated, I'll wait to distribute prizes until everyone has had a chance to look it over for mistakes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

I'm going to run a little mini-game with our card collections so you can put them to use. The goal is to take over as many of the United States as possible over two rounds of play. This will likely require strategy and prediction to come out on top. This will be quick; it starts now and ends Thursday night.

Please read this post thoroughly



Rules

You may play up to four cards on any state per round. You may stack multiple cards on the same state, and their rarities will be added together. Send All Selections in 1 Private Message to me, and all plays are final once I am PM'd.

If two people play a card (or cards) of the same rarity, the chart difficulty will decide which card wins. If the chart difficulty is equal, the song with a higher note count wins. Cards played that did not win a state are discarded for the remainder of the game.

Here's a flow chart to determine the winner of each state -

Rarity Total > Difficulty Total > Note Count Total

At the end of the first round, I will reveal the current owner (and cards played) on each state before the second round of play. Each card may only be played once. If your card was beaten by a more rare card or cards in the previous round, it may not be used again this game.

For Clarity: In round 2, you may still play cards on any state, either going for new states or stealing states from other players

In the result of a tie in the number of states owned, the player who has states with a higher total population wins. (According to google)

Round Length

Round One will last two days until 8:59 P.M. Server Time on 1/20/15.
At that point, I will make the current status of each state available and begin round 2.
Round Two will end on 1/22/15 at 8:59 P.M. Server time.

Prizes

Considering the credits I need to hold for the acheivements of the main card game, I can only afford to put up 25k into this event. If anyone else would like to donate to the pot, send me the credits and I'll add them to the pot. As of now -

1st Place - 15k
2nd Place - 7k
3rd Place - 3k

Good Luck!

Sample Submission By PM


I would Like to play

Power [1] on Alabama
bbblow [4] on Iowa
RATO [11] on Georgia

[MarcusHawkins]

i place my level 9 card on the biggest state in the US! (whatever that may be. what does google say?)

EDIT: Derp. Alaska is the biggest, while Texas is the second biggest!!

[TheSaxRunner05]

Originally Posted by MarcusHawkins

i place my level 9 card on the biggest state in the US! (whatever that may be. what does google say?)

EDIT: Derp. Alaska is the biggest, while Texas is the second biggest!!

That could still be beaten by a combination of cards, and also alaska may be the largest state in area, but I said by population, not area.

It's going to be a balancing act to grab as many states as possible. Stacking cards makes it more likely to win a state but less likely to win multiple states.

Also remember you can play up to 4 cards a round, but no one has more than 6 cards yet.

[MarcusHawkins]

I know, I placed it out to Alaska, because it makes sense, and I placed it there first, because I want everyone to have a fair chance, as I could place at the last minute.

I say this because i already won 15k, so someone else should win 15k

Oh, and I just realized it's a PM, too, so it's not final??

[MarcusHawkins]

Oh, and also, when you say "Cards are discarded" Does that mean they're also not in the spreadsheet for those collections as well?

[TheSaxRunner05]

Originally Posted by MarcusHawkins

Oh, and also, when you say "Cards are discarded" Does that mean they're also not in the spreadsheet for those collections as well?

No, just for this game.

[TheSaxRunner05]

Originally Posted by MarcusHawkins

I know, I placed it out to Alaska, because it makes sense, and I placed it there first, because I want everyone to have a fair chance, as I could place at the last minute.

I say this because i already won 15k, so someone else should win 15k

Oh, and I just realized it's a PM, too, so it's not final??

PM only, yes.

Edit:// I put a sample submission PM in the bottom of the OP

Edit2:// Added this line for clarity -

For Clarity: In round 2, you may still play cards on any state, either going for new states or stealing states from other players

[Suicidalfatman]

I've always wanted to take over the country! Let's do it.

[BestMte]

It seems like my 6 rarity 1's cards might me a problem.

[storn42]

Originally Posted by BestMte

It seems like my 6 rarity 1's cards might me a problem.

just go claim some random states that nobody would ever think of.

[gstarfire]

Originally Posted by storn42

just go claim some random states that nobody would ever think of.

But that's what everybody is going to do

[TheSaxRunner05]

Remember in round 2, you'll be able to see what everyone played in round 1 and adjust your strategy then.

That's when it'll get cutt-throat I think, over the remaining states an the high population states in consideration of the tiebreaker.

[TheSaxRunner05]

Under 24 Hours to go, we need more people to PM me their picks. I haven't had any people pick the same state yet suprisingly!

I'm sure it'll happen before Round 2

[TheSaxRunner05]

I'm going to give this an extra hour because of the downtime earlier, I hope some more people PM me

People can still play Round 2 is they hadn't played round 1, but it severely hurts their chances

[TheSaxRunner05]

Let Round 2 begin!

Here is what everyone has played so far -

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

You may play up to 4 remaining cards, remember to contact VIA P.M. to conceal your move from everyone, I won't accept cards played in the thread.

[TheSaxRunner05]

This is closing in a half hour,

there was a much more cutthroat round 2, one player got pretty much completely shafted on their Round 1 Picks

Edit:// Closed, results out shortly.

I have to go do some math to see who wins

[TheSaxRunner05]

Results

It came down to state population to determine the winner, and Trumpet63 came out on top! Guest's strategy of picking lower states on the spreadsheet to not overlap with anyone worked well enough for second place, and storn42 wins Third place with 4 States Won.

Trumpet63 (5)	Population	Total
Alaska	710231	      34,311,244
Arizona	6,392,017	
Florida	19,552,860	
Idaho 	1,612,136	
Missouri   6,044,000	
		
Guest15937 (5)		
Michigan  9,895,622    23,336,129
South Dakota 844,877	
Tennessee  6,496,000	
Vermont	626,630	
Wisconsin 5,473,000

Storn:

California
Maryland
Massachusetts
Utah

Most Contested State:
Rhode Island with 4 players playing cards on it!

Closest State Victory:
Trumpet's Victory in Idaho

His Difficulty 4 card beat out a difficulty 3 and another players difficulty 1 to not only win the state, but be a deciding factor for his victory.

Most Discarded Cards:
FoxFire667 - 4 Over Two States
benny58624 - 3 Over Three States

Well Thanks to everyone who participated, I'll wait to distribute prizes until everyone has had a chance to look it over for mistakes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

[Guest15937]

No one picked Texas? haha everyone too scared of each other

[Suicidalfatman]

Damn!! Was going to play my last two cards too >.<

[Trumpet63]

I really strategized in this game. It was a lot of fun